Waking up a old old topic, gotta love that. Well that's thanks to Google and searching for "disable MSN alerts" Anyway, you can disable that by using a Hex editor and setting the MSN version to something higher, that will make it skip the checking of versions... at least if it's just a matter of differences in builds. Haven't had the chances to check with the latest MSN, but I will once 8.1 is no longer "allowed" to be used by Microsoft.